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{“thm*m**j Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Elberton Again Enjoined. Another injunction has been granted by Judge Holden which prevenis the city of Elberton from going outside of the city limits to condemn land for ¢ity purposes. * » »* Carroll Letter Carriers Organize. The rural letter carriers of Carroli county, while relieved from duty on Thanksgiving Day, met in Carroliton at the court house and perfected an organization for the ceounty. There were twentytwo carriers in the ser. vice present. * i W Gordon Monument Fund Grows. The Gordon Mounment fund has al ready reached $12,000 and it is be. lieved that fully that much more can be secured within a short space of time. The work in securing subscrip tions is still in progress and will be kept up until $30,000 is secured . " » & Receiver May be Appointed. The Macon, Dublin and Savannah railroad has gone into the hands of a receiver—that is, if the defendants in a suit brought before Judge Speer, of the United States court Saturday, can. ' not show cause January 23, why such action should not be taken. | * ® * | Bonds Bring Good Prices. ‘ What is said to be the best sale of bonds made in Georgia this year has been made by the ecity of Dublin. Bonds bearing interest at 5 per cent. and running twenty-nne years and amounting to $45,000, sold for $47,761, accrued interest, and the payment of the bill for engraving the bonds. | A * ok Henderson to be Arraigned. The eriminal case against Mr. E. R Henderson, the ex-auditor of the Ma con and Birmingham railroad, who is charged with defaulting in the sum of $40,000, will in all probability, come to trial in Bibb superior court during the second week of the session after the court reconvenes, or the last week before the Christmas holidays. i ® ¥ L Sues Railroad for Insult. Because one of its station agents, as alleged in a petition; made indecent proposals to her, Mrs. Maude Shobe, of Cordele, has filed suit against the Savannah and Statesboro Railway Company for $20,000 damages. The suit is flled in Bryan county superior court, the alleged misconduct on the part of the railroad agent oc curring at Cuyler, while the plaintiff was- waiting for a train to take her to Kidora. * »® * Cotton Baie Causes Killing. Hamilton Glvens shot and killed nis brother-in-law, 8. H. Wilson, at their home near Alexander, in Burke coun ty, one night recently. Wilson was shot in the left side with a shotgun, and died immediately. The trouble arose about a bale of cotton. Givens 'is a single man: while Wil son leaves a wife and fatily. Givens was arrested by Deputy Sheriif Sykes and lodged in the Waynesboro jail. ] * » *® . Hope Not Abandoned. . Hope of establishinz in Atlanta a great Presbyterian university has not diminigshed as a result of the legal complications that have arisen over the orignal prososition to bring the Clarkesville and Columbia institutions together as a great university in this city. Indeéd, the prime movers were never more hopeful of establishing a great Presbyterian insttution of learn ing in the Gate City of the South than they are at present. statements to the contrary notwithstanding. o s Colonel Estill is Willin’. Following the announcement of the candidacy of Hon. Clark Howell for gubernatorial honors in Georgia, Colo. nel J. H. Estill has just made a practical, though not formal announce ment of his candidacy. When askgd about his intentions he said: “Barcas 1s willing. [ suppose it is pretty well understood that I will make the race provided the people want me, I have received many let ters urging me to make the race, and. if the sentiment continues strong I will run.” * W * Gifts to University of Georgia. The University of Georgia auxiliary has announced the raising of $20,000 through the gifts of Hon. James M. Smith, of Oglethorpe county, Gé€or gia, and Mr. George Foster Peabody, of New York, conditioned upon the rasing of $5,000 additional from the people of the state. This $25,000 will be used in the erection of a science andustrial hall on the campus of the State Normal school af, Athens and will make available $25000 appropri ated by the last general assembly for building purposes at the Normal. * * & Three Sentenced to Hang. At Rome, Saturday morning, Judge Henry resentenced Jack Bone, Court ney Baker and Bob Sutherland to be hanged. Bone is a white man and killed Z. T. Hall, a prominent farmer. He will pay the death penalty on De cember 19. The others are negroes§ and were sentenced to be hanged on December 20. | It is understood that the attorneys for the condemned men will appeal to the governor to have the sentences commuted to life imprisonment. When gsentenced the men showed perfect calmness. . * * * Emanuel Jail Delivery. One of the biggest jail deliveries in the history of Emanuel county, oc curred at Swainsboro one nght the past week. The escapes were Ed Spivey, for murder, already under life A gold medal was awarded to the state for "the exhibit of building stones. A silver medal was also giv en -Georgia for the display of gold nuggets. A silver medal was also glven Georgia for the exhibit of glay and clay products. State Geologist W. S. Yeates was awarded a gold medal for the magnifi cent manner in which he arranged the Georgia display and Assistant Geologist Jones was given a silver medal. The officials are well satisfied with the new awards. With the small ap propriation Georgia had for an exhibit it is regarded as marvelous that such a splendid showing was made. for life imprisonment and received that sentence. * * * Question as to Value of Stock. Some question has been raised as to the value of the capital stock of the Western of Alabama Railway, and this question will figure to a large extent in determining the amount of taxes due the state under the decision of the United States supreme court. Attornéys for the railroads which own the stock and who have appeared against the state in the litigation, as sert that a great mistake has been made in assuming this stock to be worth par. One of them stated he thought it was worth about 50 per cent; saying that according to his rec olection, it has paid only one or two dividends 1 ithin the last eight or ten years. There are $3,000,00% of this stock outstanding of which half is owned by the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, and half by thé Central of Georgia. If it were worth only 60, the state could levy a tax on a value of but $1,800,000, or in the case of the Georgia railroad’s share which is the only one that has been litigated, the taxable value would be but $900,000. But the state authorities contend that this stock is worth fully par, if not more. * * *® Fair Prizes for Georga. The supetior jury that judged the prizes- awarded the different siaie ex hibits at the St. Louis exposition did not agree with the Inferior jury, and on the new awards which were made Georgia received a great deal better treatment. The grand prize was awarded to (Georgia for the marble and mineral exhibit. For the bauxite exhibit a sil ver medal was given. The state geological survey was giv en a gold medal for the excellence of its publications. A gold medal was also given to the survey for the min eral, ore and rock exhibit. sentence and held pending a new trial; W. E. DeLoach, for cheating and swindling; Bob Patterson, for cheating and swindling. The break was effected by the pris oners working their way through the concrete floor and into one of the flues used for heating and ventilating pur poses and out into the jaiyard. After reaching the yard they elimb ed a fence 15 feet high, it being built of lumber with the cleats nailed on the inside. ¢ Spivey killed young Hilton at Adrian last July. He was tried in October and convicted with a recommendation FATAL BLAZE IN WASHINGTON. One Man Meets Death While Others are Injured by Jumping. Fire Bunday morning in a row of kouses on Thirteenth and C streets, Washington, D, C., burned one man to death, caused another to jump from a second-story window and break both legs, while two women who jumped each broke a leg. All of the inmates have not been accounted for, and it is feared several dead bodies may be in the ruins. _ RAILROAD WAR IMMINENT. 'Frisco Company Serves Notlce on Ak ton and Wabash, The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company has sent a formal notification to Eben E. McLeod, chair man of the Western Passenger AssO ciation, Chicago, that unless the eight hour schedule between St. Louis and Chicago was resuined by the Chicago and Alton and the Waopash railroa4s, the ’'Frisco system would ri:duce the fare between these two points. GEORGIA BAPTISTS MEET. Six Hundred Delegates Assemble iln Columbus for Annual Convention. With 602 delegates from all sections of Georgia present, the annual conven tion of the Georgia Baptists met in Columbus, Ga., Tuesday night, with ex-Governor Northen presiding. The large auditorium was complete ly filled, and at the outside it was seen that the occasion would be one of the largest conventions of Baptists ever held in Georgia. GERMANY IS WILLING. Kaiser Approves Second Meeting of The Hague Cenference. Secretary Hay has received from the (ierman government a cordial nots ac cepting in principle - President Roose velt’s suggestion for another confer ence at The Hague, As the president’s suggestion con tained no reference to the time for the meeting, the German government does ‘not commit itself on this point and awaits the pleasure of the other powers. - ATLANTA MAR} - Correctad Weekl) Ve T Groceries. Roasted coffee, per 100 pou $©12.80; Lion, #12.30; Blue ! : Ground coflee, choice 10¢; {1 Sugar, stanaard granulated ; New Orieans open kettle mixed, choice, 20@ 28 cent sacks $1.30@51.40; do bbl ice cream $1.00; common 5! fancy, full cream, twins, Arm & Hammer, $1.75. O 63gc: cream To; gingersna peaches, §1.75; table pea 8.00. Caunned tomatoes, ¥ corn, $3.00. Oysters, F. W $1.20. Fancy head rice, 740 White fish, 60-1 b kegs., 32. 100-1 b keg:, $4.40; mullet fis $4.50; macaroni, 7c pourd; 8¢ pouni. Sardines, oil, ci. dines, mustard, sB.£o; salmon, 6.50. Peprer sauce, dozen 6 gints, dozen &s¢c; mustard. du ic<les, 15-gallon, 600 s, $5.50. Flour, Grain and Meal Flour, Diamend patent, #6, patant, #85.70; straight 5. fancy $4.25; fanocy, i3.‘fs. F ent spring wheat, $5.40. Cor. white, 68c: No. 2do, 66c; No. 2 1 Oats, white clipped 58c: No. 2 No. 2 mixed B4c. Vietor food . one hundred pounds. Qual $1.25. Choice large bale hr No. 1 small $1.10: No. 2 s: Meal, plain, 65¢; bolted 60c. Br. brown shorts $1.25; white shor Pearl grits, %1.60. Country Produce. Eggs, fresh stook, 26@27%jc. smoked bacon l4@1le; hams Butter, Georgia fresh tabie, 16@} nessee table, 16@18¢c; Jersey, £ cooking butter, 13!@15¢; eondit dull, Live poultry, hens, fries, large, 27@380c; medium small 15@16¢c. Ducks puddle, & Pekin 30@385¢c. Dressed poultry, he l4c per pound; fries 16@17¢ pe coeks B@iCe per pound; turkeys Onions, new crop, 1.40@#%1.60 pe. Cabbage, Dani:h, 3@34c per . Bweet potatoes, new crop, 85@% bushel. Peas, white, $1.50 per bus lady, $1.75@2 00; stock, $1.25@1.3( fruit, Georgia apples se¢ é)omu geaches S@6ce. California dried 3go: California dried peirs 84c. I turnips I}4@ 2. Provisions, ; Reguiar rib sides, boxed 7.60; ! 7.60. peliies, 20-1 b average, 8:0); d. average, 7.60, >tar hams, 18¢. Fu 6.95; rib backs 7.40; platess.7o. . bams, 11}¢. Caslifornia bams Be, pure kett.e renderei iea! lard 8%. brand leaf lard 77¢c. White (lov pound The. a Cotton. ; Market cior2d steady, mlddllfig { SOCIALISTS FLOOREPR AG. Federation of Labor Congention feats Attack on Statff Troops. The American Federatin of Lab’ at San Francisco, Tuesday, overwhelr ingly defeated a resolution comit from the socialistic element, reco mending that the convention v?t_e fi a measure abolishing the mi!i}' ‘-% i now exists. 8 The resolution called foynx- @;abst’ tution of the system no);y folk %gue Switzerland, where eve€hal We Gher arms, but each individusl ‘f%“g M to keep nis weapon in his .. “home TRAIN DEMOLISHES BUGGY. Girl Killed, Boy Weounded a<a .ief Occupant Escaped Unhurt, At Wartrace, Tenn., Tuesday morn ing a passenger train ran into a buggy containing three occupants. Miss Sadie Waite, aged 16, was in stantly killed and her brother, aged 1{ was so badly mangled that he cann recover. The other occupant esca unhurt, WILL GATHER IN PANAMA Physicians Will Hold Great Mas’ on the Isthpius. . \ Secretary Guiteras, of the American Medical jcongress has ily completed . arrangements for l!ourth annual meeting of that bo in Panama from January 2 to J ! mary 6 next. It is expected that about 300 ['Lc._ia,ns from this country will at +tend.